Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/67310 
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Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6931
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper discusses research questions related to immigrants' time use, reviews conceptual and methodological approaches to examining time allocations, and reviews evidence from previous studies. It provides new descriptive evidence, using time-diary data from the American Time Use Survey. Although results vary with the country of origin, immigrant men in the U.S. tend to devote more time to market work and sleeping but less time to housework, community activities, and leisure than native men. Immigrant women tend to devote more time to housework, caregiving and sleep but less time to market work, community activities, and leisure than native women.
Subjects: 
time use
immigrants
JEL: 
J22
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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